Ferrari
February 5th, 2004, 05:07 PM
Sarah Edworthy, a long-time fan of DC, muses over why he might yet win the world championship.
I know there is a strong case against Coulthard as a number one driver. I know he has had the luxury of racing for ten years - an entire decade - for either Williams or McLaren and never finished higher than third in the title standings. He could arguably have been World Champion on the basis that his former team-mates have taken the title driving equal equipment. I know he has never dominated a weekend in, say, the way Barrichello did at Silverstone last year with pole position, fastest lap and a stunning victory. And I know he cannot just jump into any old car and go for it, he has to have it “just so.”
But the 2004 lap charts and race cards are still blank. As DC, the hospitable hotelier that he is in Monaco, would surely agree: a glass is never half-empty, but half-full and about to be refilled. [Extract]
I know there is a strong case against Coulthard as a number one driver. I know he has had the luxury of racing for ten years - an entire decade - for either Williams or McLaren and never finished higher than third in the title standings. He could arguably have been World Champion on the basis that his former team-mates have taken the title driving equal equipment. I know he has never dominated a weekend in, say, the way Barrichello did at Silverstone last year with pole position, fastest lap and a stunning victory. And I know he cannot just jump into any old car and go for it, he has to have it “just so.”
But the 2004 lap charts and race cards are still blank. As DC, the hospitable hotelier that he is in Monaco, would surely agree: a glass is never half-empty, but half-full and about to be refilled. [Extract]